Click through this gallery to learn about the most devastating mining accidents in human history, and the shocking death tolls they caused.

For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The museum is housed in a former ...

(Thomas Wieck/AFP/Getty Images) ** This episode was originally published on June 14, 2019. When Karl Marx offered his critique of capitalism in the mid-19th century, work was a brutal endeavour.

In the intervening 40 years increased fragmentation, sectarianism and cultural stereotyping diluted the early 19th-century working-class revolutionary impetus. The purpose of Marx and Engels’s ...

For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The museum is housed in a ...

For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The museum is housed in a f ...